Salford Zine Library will be at Salford Museum and Art Gallery from 15th October 2011 to 29th January 2012 showing the archive along side some original artwork, film showings and workshops.
We are looking for new contributions all the time and If you would like your self-published work be to be featured in this upcoming exhibition then please post your contributions to :48 Landos Court, Manchester M40 7WT United Kingdom
Mandi Goodier is looking for people to participate in her latest project.
This is a call for appropriations.
How to participate....
I am inviting you to take ownership of the text. To write/mark upon the sheet of paper as you might do with a theoretical or academic writing. Creating a sort of map of your approach to the text. Interrogate it, change it, edit it, define it, critique it, re-write it, empathise with it... do whatever you like as long as you act upon the page. APPROPRIATE IT.
The result will be a rewriting of the original text in order to make it more complete through collective understanding/interpretations, or more flawed text as meaning may have all together deteriorated. The rewritten text will be generated by you, the reader who through reading, understanding and marking the sheet will become a part of the collective author.
The collated responses and rewritten text will then be reproduced in the form of a publication.
To participate simply download the attachment, print, digest the contents, appropriate the text and then return it to me via email/post (preferably post)
Please forward this email/photocopied version of the text (+ instructions) to anyone else who may be interested in participating.
(If emailing please cc usergeneration@gmail.com to help keep track of the project, I will not hound you with emails I promise)
Email: usergeneration@gmail.com for the text.
http://usergenerated-text.tumblr.com/
The first ever fanzine convention to be held in the beautiful setting of Victoria Baths will explore the past, present and future of self-publishing through stalls featuring self-published books and zines to browse, talks, a film showing and workshops.GENERAL INTEREST THREE
29TH MARCH 2011 * 6.30PM
TRAVIS MILLARD
invited by SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY
At the SOUP KITCHEN, just off Stevensons Square, Manchester
Skype Talk and discussion with Travis with accompanying publication.
The talk and publication will follow for viewing in the ARCHIVE sections of this website
General Interest is a series of lectures inviting Manchester practitioners to invite someone they like to give a talk on something they like. If the nominated speaker was unable to talk, it was then requested that they nominate another speaker; someone they like.
The talks will be held at the Soup Kitchen, Manchester on the last Tuesday of each month from January through to August 2011. The talks are free to enter and wholly inclusive encouraging interaction and discussion. Each event will be accompanied by a publication, filmed and archived online.
General Interest was started by Matthew Walkerdine and Jessica Higgins who then invited Comfortable on a Tightrope, Craig Oldham, Good Grief!, Hot Bed Press, Islington Mill Art Academy and Salford Zine Library to participate.
Since completing a degree in 2001 Ba (Hons) Print Media Book Arts & Craft, I have been making and exhibiting artists' books and prints, my work is held in private and public collections. I make books and prints about the everyday world around me; the everyday that stops me, makes me wonder and take the time to stand and stare.
MAT ZINE conatins work from artist: Elizabeth Plain, Bob Milner and Susan Mortimer.
Susan Mortimer recently completed a MA in visual arts through Camberwell College, University of the Arts, London and is currently a Frebird studio member at Empty Shop HQ, Durham
Contribution:
MAT ZINE
Temporary Services is Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. Temporary Services produce exhibitions, events, projects, and publications. The project started as an experimental exhibition space in a working class neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. 
Sam Hasler is a visual artist based in cardiff . He has made performance work across the UK and Europe in Galleries and alternative spaces. He has performed at several festivals including EXPO festival in Nottingham, National Review of live art in Glasgow and Experimentica in Cardiff. His work uses drawing and writing within a structure that allows decision making and creative responses to space, within the performance.
Craig John Barr is an artist/illustrator residing in Manchester, England.
Brion Nuda Rosch’s work is inviting yet unpredictable. His diverse combinations of materials gently lead viewers to unexpected discoveries. These deceptively simple works present humorously profound situations- Rosch's simple act of placing one image of a waterfall on top of another complicates pictorial space, subject-object hierarchy, and combinative logic. Such playful sleight of hand pervades most of his works, and adds a wink to the deep resonances that they evoke. Neither reclusive obsessions nor simply vehicles for expression, Rosch's works function as signposts and touchstones of his own investigation into his singular understanding of the world.
The Journal contains a mixture of art writing, fiction, theory, illustration, collage and photography representing the work of Off Modern and its immediate circle of collaborators over the last six months.
The work ranges from the SECOND OM MANIFESTO and NO NEW AVANT GARDES, by Off Modern, detailing the future ideas of the group. WILL SHUTES gives us his vision of a future literature in A NOTE ON NEWNESS and the photography collective, HOLY GHOST, present an illuminating report on the TEMPORARY SCHOOL OF THOUGHT, a group of squatters who founded a school based on the free exchange of knowledge. Fictional work comes from the satirical EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF LEWIS KLEJSTAN by WILLIAM HUNT, detailing the life of a failing artist and GORDON MACRAE’s lingering evocation of Americana in ONE OH ONE.
Photography is supplied by the likes of GUY GORMLEY, with his haunting images of vacant spaces, and PATRICK BARRETT, who continues in his ongoing project of documenting the crumbling Brutalist masterpieces of the 60s. Also featuring is YURI PATTISON, who includes two sets of images; one of the movements of art works at last years Frieze art fair and two evocative half frame diptychs of silent London landscapes. The journal is beautifully illustrated by our favourite young artists and designers working at the moment. JAYNE HELLIWELL produces a work of trademark brilliance whilst TOM REES and CHARLIE GIBSON show their dark senses of humour quite perfectly in their intricate collage work.
